Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 I have called daily since Friday asking for a referral to a pain specialist. HI, It really frosts (and that's the nice word) me that someone has to go thru this to get a referral. What difference does it make to the doctor! I have done things like sat in the office refusing to leave and one time I went to the office before closing time and waited for the doctor to come out his private entrance. He was so shocked to see me sitting there in the dark! BTW...I got the script I was asking for that night. Kathleen in Calif. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 Aubergine, The only thing I can think of what may cure or stop a headache is to drink plenty of Caffeine... When I was going to go for a Spinal tap, my cyberfriends told me to drink lots of coffee and colas before and after the spinal tap to prevent the horrible headache that is associated with it... I also stayed in bed laid almost flat and used straws to drink the sodas I caught up on my reading. It really worked and I did not get the headache... I had heard of people having to go to the Emergency room because of the headaches... Let me know if it works for you? Good luck I sure hope the headache goes away soon... Wish Me Luck I have had a headache, probably from my CDS, for the last 5 days. I currently have no pain meds other than Celebrex, thanks to a GP who wants me on fewer meds, and the Flexeril alone just isn't cutting it. I have called daily since Friday asking for a referral to a pain specialist. This morning I got it. My appointment is in 3 weeks, and I am on the cancellation waiting list. I still have the crappy headache. All any will suggest is that I go in to Emergency, which I totally cannot afford. Oh well, at least I now have my foot in the pain clinic door. Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/Jan/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 One of the pain meds I formerly took contained caffeine. I had to stop it & all caffeine-containing beverages when I learned that caffeine really aggravates my Meniere's, which is Cochleo-Vestibular Hydrops, or excess fluid pressure in the inner ear, which causes vertigo & disorientation. Makes MiMa fall down go boom, as my grandchildren would say. I cannot afford any avoidable falls. Not being able to take anything containing caffeine, NSAIDs or Tylenol, or any true opiates really limits my options. Thanks much for the thought, though. Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley -----Original Message----- Aubergine, The only thing I can think of what may cure or stop a headache is to drink plenty of Caffeine... When I was going to go for a Spinal tap, my cyberfriends told me to drink lots of coffee and colas before and after the spinal tap to prevent the horrible headache that is associated with it... I also stayed in bed laid almost flat and used straws to drink the sodas I caught up on my reading. It really worked and I did not get the headache... I had heard of people having to go to the Emergency room because of the headaches... Let me know if it works for you? Good luck I sure hope the headache goes away soon... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/Jan/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 Try Dristan, or one of the OTC migraine remedies. I have what's called " sinus-migraine " , which means it's a combination of the two. Until I found out about Neurontin I was taking a lot of Dristan, Tylenol, and found that hot steamy showers and sometimes anti-congestants, like Dristan or pseudofed helped me. Even some saline nasal spray may help. I had headaches and nausea every day. Get your blood pressure checked and get to a doctor as soon as you can. My Neurologist is the one who recomenneded the Neurontin. I now rarely have any major headaches. Wish Me Luck I have had a headache, probably from my CDS, for the last 5 days. I currently have no pain meds other than Celebrex, thanks to a GP who wants me on fewer meds, and the Flexeril alone just isn't cutting it. I have called daily since Friday asking for a referral to a pain specialist. This morning I got it. My appointment is in 3 weeks, and I am on the cancellation waiting list. I still have the crappy headache. All any will suggest is that I go in to Emergency, which I totally cannot afford. Oh well, at least I now have my foot in the pain clinic door. Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 I do wish you luck! I wish you more than luck, I wish you find a doctor who will care enough about you to treat your pain effectively! That makes me so mad. If the dr. would take you off anything I would imagine the flexeril would go before the pain meds. All that did was make me sleep and feel like a pile of jello but did nothing for my pain. My pain wasn't a headache though- and why would flexeril help with a headache anyway, isn't it a muscle relaxant? That GP is not very informed. I really hope the pain clinic will help you. > I have had a headache, probably from my CDS, for > the last 5 days. I currently have no pain meds > other than Celebrex, thanks to a GP who wants me > on fewer meds, and the Flexeril alone just isn't > cutting it. > > I have called daily since Friday asking for a > referral to a pain specialist. This morning I > got it. My appointment is in 3 weeks, and I am > on the cancellation waiting list. I still have > the crappy headache. All any will suggest is > that I go in to Emergency, which I totally cannot > afford. > > Oh well, at least I now have my foot in the pain > clinic door. > > Aubergine > > AOL IM: ShadoCrone > MSN MS: Shadow_Crone > YM: shadowcrone > ICQ#: 11443880 > Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system > (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release > Date: 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 Almost all OTC stuff is OOTQ [out of the question]. I have HCV - hepatitis C - which means don't do anything which might upset the liver. I also have a shopping list of other conditions - GERD, IBS/IBD, CHBT, Diabetes 2, Meniere's, other stuff - which make using anything without consulting my hepatologist/gastroenterologist & /or my neurologist & /or my otolaryngologist & /or my shrink plus my pharmacist a gamble I do not care to take. No NSAIDs, no Tylenol, no caffeine, nothing which contains any of these are allowed. Nice thought. I appreciate it. Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley -----Original Message----- Try Dristan, or one of the OTC migraine remedies [snip] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/Jan/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 This is the Internist who wants me off meds, not on more. He does a good job with the basic stuff & all. He is just a bit thrown by someone with the laundry list of conditions I have - literally a full page worth. I am getting back to seeing specialists because he wants their input before he does something. Once a specialist has decided that I really do need something, he will prescribe & supervise unless the specialist wants to follow-up. Plus he says that each additional med increases the likelihood that I will have a problem with the mix, and I know from unpleasant experience that he is right about that. Part of the problem is that the referring Dr thought that I could call the pain Dr myself & set up my own appt. I could not. Their offices did not coordinate well on this. I also do not think that he has taken well to my calling him 'Bill', but I figure that if he can call me 'Betty', what goes around comes around... Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley -----Original Message----- HI, It really frosts (and that's the nice word) me that someone has to go thru this to get a referral. What difference does it make to the doctor! I have done things like sat in the office refusing to leave and one time I went to the office before closing time and waited for the doctor to come out his private entrance. He was so shocked to see me sitting there in the dark! BTW...I got the script I was asking for that night. Kathleen in Calif. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 My neuro put me on the Flexeril to help with my muscle spasms & to short circuit the pain/tension feedback loop: the more I hurt the more I tense up which make me hurt more which makes me tense up more etc. It does help, but only when I am not already hurting a lot to begin with. The Internist is justifiably worried that the more meds I am on the more likely I am to have a problem with the mix. That has been a problem in the past: periodically my digestive tract totally rebels & I cannot take anything at all or even eat solid food except the BRAT diet [not good for diabetics, but great for IBS] for a week or more. He will go along with anything a specialist prescribes. He sends me to specialists because I have such a variety of conditions, at least one of which is potentially fatal. This means that I am adding the pain doc from Viet Nam to the shrink & gastro from India with the unpronounceable names and the hepato from Spain with the high Castillian accent. Our little community has quite the international complement of Drs, especially in the specialities. Thanks, , and thank you all. This is just what I was hoping that I could find when I started looking for a list for people in pain - not just a list but a community of concern. Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley -----Original Message----- I do wish you luck! I wish you more than luck, I wish you find a doctor who will care enough about you to treat your pain effectively! That makes me so mad. If the dr. would take you off anything I would imagine the flexeril would go before the pain meds. All that did was make me sleep and feel like a pile of jello but did nothing for my pain. My pain wasn't a headache though- and why would flexeril help with a headache anyway, isn't it a muscle relaxant? That GP is not very informed. I really hope the pain clinic will help you. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.317 / Virus Database: 176 - Release Date: 21/Jan/02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2002 Report Share Posted February 12, 2002 this is sad and funny at the same time; i love the first name stuff!!!!! I will gladly see any dr that domes off of his/her podium long enough to respond to their first name from a " lowly patient " ; who says we are " patient " ???!! i like KAthaleen;s method, too; must be in the name; that is my given name!!!! and i have done the same thing!!!!! --- Crone wrote: > This is the Internist who wants me off meds, not > on more. He does a good job with the basic stuff > & all. He is just a bit thrown by someone with > the laundry list of conditions I have - literally > a full page worth. I am getting back to seeing > specialists because he wants their input before > he does something. Once a specialist has decided > that I really do need something, he will > prescribe & supervise unless the specialist wants > to follow-up. Plus he says that each additional > med increases the likelihood that I will have a > problem with the mix, and I know from unpleasant > experience that he is right about that. > > Part of the problem is that the referring Dr > thought that I could call the pain Dr myself & > set up my own appt. I could not. Their offices > did not coordinate well on this. > > I also do not think that he has taken well to my > calling him 'Bill', but I figure that if he can > call me 'Betty', what goes around comes around... > > Aubergine > > AOL IM: ShadoCrone > MSN MS: Shadow_Crone > YM: shadowcrone > ICQ#: 11443880 > Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley > > > -----Original Message----- > HI, > > It really frosts (and that's the nice word) me > that someone has to go thru > this to get a referral. What difference does it > make to the doctor! > > I have done things like sat in the office > refusing to leave and one time I > went to the office before closing time and waited > for the doctor to come out > his private entrance. He was so shocked to see > me sitting there in the dark! > BTW...I got the script I was asking for that > night. > > Kathleen in Calif. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2002 Report Share Posted February 13, 2002 I hope that all of your doctors coordinate with one another and make sure that everything is taken into consideration. In the past, one of my doctors gave me steroids which aggravated another condition which lead to complications. It would be hard to prove that this definitely caused specific problems, but the fact that I informed him of every condition I have and the fact that he went ahead anyway and gave me the steroids is not right at all. If I'd known to stay away from the steroids I would have told him so, but unfortunately I did not know and he is the one with the medical degree. I hate all of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2002 Report Share Posted February 13, 2002 Hang in there crone. This too shall pass, even if it feels like forever while you wait. Robbie in FL, co-moderator chronic_pain. AS/RS (ReA) 18 + years. feralelf@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2002 Report Share Posted February 13, 2002 Good for you, LOL I had noticed that myself that the doctor calls me and it never crossed my mind about calling them anything other than Doctor...A couple of my Doctors have seen me naked ( to be examined ) I shall have to try calling them by their names...and see what reaction I get... ) From: Crone To I also do not think that he has taken well to my calling him 'Bill', but I figure that if he can call me 'Betty', what goes around comes around... Aubergine AOL IM: ShadoCrone MSN MS: Shadow_Crone YM: shadowcrone ICQ#: 11443880 Wildly Insightful & Talented Crone with a Harley -----Original Message----- HI, It really frosts (and that's the nice word) me that someone has to go thru this to get a referral. What difference does it make to the doctor! I have done things like sat in the office refusing to leave and one time I went to the office before closing time and waited for the doctor to come out his private entrance. He was so shocked to see me sitting there in the dark! BTW...I got the script I was asking for that night. Kathleen in Calif. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2002 Report Share Posted February 13, 2002 I was told that being on Steroids for a long time can cause Diabetes..... ----- Original Message ----- I hope that all of your doctors coordinate with one another and make sure that everything is taken into consideration. In the past, one of my doctors gave me steroids which aggravated another condition which lead to complications. It would be hard to prove that this definitely caused specific problems, but the fact that I informed him of every condition I have and the fact that he went ahead anyway and gave me the steroids is not right at all. If I'd known to stay away from the steroids I would have told him so, but unfortunately I did not know and he is the one with the medical degree. I hate all of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 13, 2002 Report Share Posted February 13, 2002 , There are predisposing factors for Diabetes Heridity Obesity Major Trauma to the body Steroids and for some reason right now the fifth eludes me... I will get back to you on that one hon.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 20, 2005 Report Share Posted September 20, 2005 Hey all Now that I have my greencard, I have gotten myself a job! I start tomorrow at The Container Store. It is just temporary as we leave for Australia soon, but boy will I be glad to get out of the house! Wish me luck! Kristy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2005 Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 Good Luck! I love the container store! So much fun stuff! hugs, cindy lee > Hey all > > > > Now that I have my greencard, I have gotten myself a job! > > I start tomorrow at The Container Store. It is just temporary as we leave > for Australia soon, but boy will I be glad to get out of the house! > > Wish me luck! > > > > Kristy > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 21, 2005 Report Share Posted September 21, 2005 Kristy! Somehow I missed your post that you got a job. Congratulations! And the Container Store! I'd never have any money if I worked there because I'd spend it all before I got it! LOL! Glad to hear you've got something to keep your days busy until you move. Hugs! Tracey > > Hey all > > > > > > > > Now that I have my greencard, I have gotten myself a job! > > > > I start tomorrow at The Container Store. It is just temporary as > we leave > > for Australia soon, but boy will I be glad to get out of the house! > > > > Wish me luck! > > > > > > > > Kristy > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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